UBTech is actively hiring senior technical roles—from reinforcement learning engineers and hardware engineers to EtherCAT Master Station and mechanical engineers—to build a broad, capable talent network.

Airbus SE purchased UBTech’s Walker S2 humanoids for use in aircraft plants, signaling international demand and real-world applicability outside lab settings.

UBTech’s aggressive talent push sits within a broader industry context, with potential IPO activity and strategic moves signaling momentum in the global humanoid robotics market.

UBTech is offering up to 124 million yuan per year to hire a Chief Scientist of Embodied Intelligence, a package designed to lead AI model research and define the company’s roadmap for humanoid robots.

Experts note that securing top talent can accelerate tech direction, shorten development cycles, and reduce trial-and-error costs amid competitive pressures.

UBTech reported 2025 revenue of about 2.01 billion yuan, up over 50% year-over-year, with humanoid products and services accounting for a substantial portion of revenue driven by real deployments.

The chief embodied intelligence scientist will lead research in vision-language-action models, foundational robot models, and manipulation learning, and will drive the deployment of embodied intelligence from lab to real-world use cases including manufacturing, services, and home environments.

UBTech faces intense global competition in humanoid AI and robotics from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Tesla, amid China’s push to make robotics a strategic sector in its 2026 work report and a wave of senior researcher hiring by Chinese firms.

China’s government has identified robots as a key future industry, aligning with UBTech’s expansion in AI and robotics.

Tesla and other global players are also ramping up top-talent recruitment for embodied intelligence, underscoring a worldwide race for talent in this field.

UBTech’s recruitment messaging emphasizes merit-based hiring, focusing on capability to shape the future regardless of passport, age, or gender.

Beyond the chief scientist, UBTech seeks Rust development engineers, mechanical engineers, and reinforcement learning engineers, offering perks like quarterly sick leave, flexible hours, housing benefits, and unlimited coffee.